{"id":298311,"date":"2025-12-04T09:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298311\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T09:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:37:10","slug":"hospitality-sector-could-lose-another-100000-after-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/298311\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospitality sector could lose another 100,000 after budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk\/documents\/SN05871\/SN05871.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The latest ONS figures, external<\/a> show there are 702,000 people aged 16 to 24 who are unemployed, 60,000 more than the previous year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Among them is Saif Miah, 23, from west London, who says he has applied for hospitality jobs every day since summer with no luck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If you&#8217;re lucky you&#8217;ll get a response saying you&#8217;ve not got the job. Other times you don&#8217;t even get a response. It feels very demeaning because you&#8217;re in a cycle and it really demotivates you perpetually. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re so used to rejection that you feel you&#8217;re not good enough and get imposter syndrome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He&#8217;s now taking part in a <a href=\"https:\/\/find-employer-schemes.education.gov.uk\/schemes\/sector-based-work-academy-programme-swap\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">government-backed programme, external<\/a> at the Hospitality Skills Academy at Capital City College in central London for jobseekers aged 16 and over. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Miah is hoping for a job at the end of the course, which offers a three-day work placement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vince Kelly, manager at the academy, says the courses help to plug &#8220;large skills gaps&#8221; in hospitality. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> &#8220;There are lots of different sections to the industry. High end, five-star hotels, corporate catering. Hospitals, schools, care homes looking to recruit catering assistants. We&#8217;re working on confidence and role play.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest ONS figures, external show there are 702,000 people aged 16 to 24 who are unemployed, 60,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-298311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}